diff --git a/lib/bumblebee/multimodal/blip.ex b/lib/bumblebee/multimodal/blip.ex
index 92f23cec..13c6b2a1 100644
--- a/lib/bumblebee/multimodal/blip.ex
+++ b/lib/bumblebee/multimodal/blip.ex
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ defmodule Bumblebee.Multimodal.Blip do
       Indices of positions of each decoder input sequence tokens in
       the position embeddings.
 
+    * `"encoder_hidden_state"` - `{batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size}`
+
+      Last hidden state output from the encoder. This hidden state is
+      used in cross-attention blocks in the decoder. If specified, the
+      model will skip the image encoding process and use this value
+      directly for cross-attentions in the text decoder.
+
     * `"cache"`
 
       A container with cached layer results used to speed up sequential
@@ -107,6 +114,7 @@ defmodule Bumblebee.Multimodal.Blip do
 
     vision_shape = {nil, vision_spec.image_size, vision_spec.image_size, vision_spec.num_channels}
     text_shape = {nil, nil}
+    vision_hidden_shape = {nil, nil, vision_spec.hidden_size}
 
     inputs =
       Bumblebee.Utils.Model.inputs_to_map([
@@ -114,6 +122,7 @@ defmodule Bumblebee.Multimodal.Blip do
         Axon.input("decoder_input_ids", optional: true, shape: text_shape),
         Axon.input("decoder_attention_mask", optional: true, shape: text_shape),
         Axon.input("decoder_position_ids", optional: true, shape: text_shape),
+        Axon.input("encoder_hidden_state", optional: true, shape: vision_hidden_shape),
         Axon.input("cache", optional: true)
       ])
 
@@ -129,6 +138,21 @@ defmodule Bumblebee.Multimodal.Blip do
         "pixel_values" => inputs["pixel_values"]
       })
 
+    vision_model_outputs =
+      Layers.if_present inputs["encoder_hidden_state"] do
+        %{
+          hidden_state: inputs["encoder_hidden_state"],
+          hidden_states: Layers.none(),
+          attentions: Layers.none()
+        }
+      else
+        %{
+          hidden_state: Axon.nx(vision_model, & &1.hidden_state),
+          hidden_states: Axon.nx(vision_model, & &1.hidden_states),
+          attentions: Axon.nx(vision_model, & &1.attentions)
+        }
+      end
+
     text_decoder =
       text_spec
       |> Bumblebee.configure(
@@ -141,7 +165,7 @@ defmodule Bumblebee.Multimodal.Blip do
         "input_ids" => inputs["decoder_input_ids"],
         "attention_mask" => inputs["decoder_attention_mask"],
         "position_ids" => inputs["decoder_position_ids"],
-        "encoder_hidden_state" => Axon.nx(vision_model, & &1.hidden_state),
+        "encoder_hidden_state" => vision_model_outputs.hidden_state,
         "cache" => inputs["cache"]
       })
 
@@ -150,9 +174,9 @@ defmodule Bumblebee.Multimodal.Blip do
       decoder_hidden_states: Axon.nx(text_decoder, & &1.hidden_states),
       decoder_attentions: Axon.nx(text_decoder, & &1.attentions),
       cross_attentions: Axon.nx(text_decoder, & &1.cross_attentions),
-      encoder_hidden_state: Axon.nx(vision_model, & &1.hidden_state),
-      encoder_hidden_states: Axon.nx(vision_model, & &1.hidden_states),
-      encoder_attentions: Axon.nx(vision_model, & &1.attentions),
+      encoder_hidden_state: vision_model_outputs.hidden_state,
+      encoder_hidden_states: vision_model_outputs.hidden_states,
+      encoder_attentions: vision_model_outputs.attentions,
       cache: Axon.nx(text_decoder, & &1.cache)
     })
   end